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Good morning! Do the long summer days and sunshine impact your energy levels too? I sleep less than ever but still donāt feel sleepy at night. Curious to hear if itās a thing for others too
Heat is tiring, and if itās very hot I struggle to get to sleep, but generally I donāt have any troubles with that
Good morning! I always feel more rested in the summer because the sunrise waking me up naturally helps me to not oversleep. But the heat can be draining. Iām used to British summers and here itās normal to be 30 degrees or more in the summer
Iāve been/felt extremely unproductive the last couple of weeks. Not quite sure why, but it might be that with the nice weather I prefer to be outside rather than put in a couple of extra hours in the evening.
Itās a metric about as useless as LOC, but Iāve found that it has some value. In a somewhat ideal world this metric would stay somewhat constant. As you see in my graph, Iām somewhat on a roller coster it seems. If I were my manager, Iād find that interesting, and might use that as a basis for a discussion. Not because one should have a constant flow of commits, but when your rate of commits suddenly drops, it might be an indication of something that should be handled. So, not at all advocating using a metric like this to compare devs to other devs, but rather to use as an invitation to a discussion if there are huge variations in the rates of commits.
The rate of commits can vary for tons of reasons. Pair, or mob programming being one. Or shift of focus from committing new bugs or fixes over to testing. Or, whatever. Even if some of the reasons could be valid concerns, I think I would be uncomfortable with my manager bringing up stats like that as a basis for discussions.
Morning š
always beware Goodheart's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Wasnāt that slipsetās point - donāt use if for a metric, but have a conversation, and see if itās for a good/neutral reason, or if thereās a problem. Needs to be approached carefully, and the environment needs to be right, etc etc
Could be a sign that someoneās struggling, could be a sign that support are coming to them too often, could be a sign that theyāre taken on extra responsibility and need a pay rise/promotion š
On @otfromās tangent, I get reminded of John James Cowperthwaite, Governor of Hong Kong during the 1960's who āforbidā national statistics on the basis that that would create inefficiencies. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Cowperthwaite: > He was once asked what the key thing that poor countries could do to improve their growth. He replied: āThey should abolish the office of national statistics.ā
Basically. As a manager you should be observing a bunch of signals coming from the people you manage. Rate of commits could be one such signal. None of these signals should be treated as authoritative, but variance in them could invite to a discussion to see if there are underlying problems. Case in point. One of our most productive programmers had its productivity drop to zero in March last year. If I were its manager, I would have had a talk basically saying āWe understand, times are hard, take care of yourself and your familyā.
true, but sometimes commits drop to zero b/c they are helping team mates and not doing commits themselves (as mentioned above)
but yeah, lots of signals help. Just have to be careful in how they are interpreted
just remember - numbers about life aren't real, they are just a record of things that have been counted š
Good morning
@reefersleep Building up tolerance? ;)
Hahaha I wish
Never more than 2, never later than 15, @borkdude
I have 10 cups a day on average. Throughout the day and often one just before bed time. š
That's crazy! Though, I can imagine that I'll have to up my dosage when we have the next kid, so I have sympathy for your situation š¶:skin-tone-2:
I get crazy withdrawal symptoms when I deviate too much from my normal coffee dosage. Same with normal number of commits.
Recently I have started to wake up quite early, but I have attributed that to age (we have a word āgubbvaknaā in Swedish, donāt know how official, but it alludes to that old people wale up early).
it is common with age yes. also in summer, I tend to wake up earlier because of all the frigging light
@borkdude frig that light. I've come to appreciate dark, rainy days so much more than sunny days during the past few years. I kid you not, I get giddy when I see dark clouds.


@reefersleep Come to Northern Ireland, youād love it here! No sun for days on end.
I'm moving back to Greece this summer. I'll let you know if my energy levels grow or climb. Much more mellow sunrise/sunset cycles but a lot more sunlight on average.
Just for the summer?
Nope, leaving for good :( the hardest decision of my life now that we have a daughterā¦
COVID made this both possible but also necessary. It obliterated completely all of our social lives (most of our friends moved away) and raising a child with no support network is tough.
Also the timing is right for my wife to get started in academia which in Copenhagen at least turned out to be a dead endā¦
Thanks! Leaving Copenhagen in warm weather is even harder š¹ Iāll still visit though as Iām keeping my job here :)
Iāll let you know how it goes :) The Danish state takes care of a lot of things which we have now to figure out on our own. But Iām gone 6 years now and things have probably changed. A lot of low hanging fruit, organization-wise :)
I would love to have a chat about that, because I strongly disagree! But we might need to wait for an in-person Clojure conference! ā¤ļø
Damn, thatās a tough decision! I fully sympathise with your reasoning. We moved back to the other end of the country to be closer to family after the birth, and Iām so happy we did, even if socialising with family can beā¦. hmmmā¦ challenging at times (he wrote at the tail end of a weekend spent with the in-laws)
I hope itāll turn out for the best all around š
In other sunny topics, whereabouts should I look to hire a Wordpress freelancer to hack on our corporate website?
So if I understand correctly, it is common on a europe channel to say "morning" in the evening haha š